Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

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Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by Kinghat » Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:19 am

My wife and I love old things (which includes old buildings). A downtown Texarkana building is being renovated to make into apartments, and my wife scored some of the wood. The building was built around 1905 (we are trying to find out more info). Enough words, here's some pics:

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by marqueemoon » Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:23 am

Looks great so far.

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by Magnatoner » Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:40 am

Very cool! It's a shame how much of that old stock ends up in landfills. Are you certain it's pine?

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by Kinghat » Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:08 am

Magnatoner wrote:
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Are you certain it's pine?
Pretty certain. Besides being what nearly everything is built of around here, including circa 1900, there was a knot in the board that smelled strongly of pine resin.

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Post by Magnatoner » Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:07 pm

That's cool. Yeah it's totally a regional thing when you're dealing with buildings of that age, often whole towns were built from only a few suppliers. That old growth stuff is nothing like the wood we see today (way harder, more stable etc). I am really curious what kind of tone you get out of it!

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Post by epizootics » Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:52 pm

That herringbone binding sho' works a treat with that beautiful pine! Well done to the both of you.

My last build used 60+ yo Douglas Fir that was so so hard my cat couldn't use it as a cat tree even though it really tried. Acoustically speaking it reminded me of ash, maybe a tad brighter. Conifers are fun to use in guitars. I'm curious, how dry is the resin in those planks? Mine was still pretty runny, even after drying for so long!

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:10 pm

Lovely :-* :?
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Post by antisymmetric » Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:16 pm

Nice. :-* I have a few really old boards with some history sitting around, but they're waiting for a project that is "worthy" of them. Thanks for the inspiration, very keen to watch your progress.
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by armyofbees » Wed Jun 27, 2018 2:15 pm

wow beautiful grain and love that binding!

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by Kinghat » Thu Jul 12, 2018 8:38 am

I finished the body and assembled it with a donor neck. These are McNelly Stagger Swagger pickups.

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Post by Horsefeather » Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:38 am

Wow, that's a very handsome guitar. I love the old wood. And you nailed the accoutrements.

There's a local pizza shop I frequent that has two enormous old growth fir beams holding up its ceiling--probably 18x36s at 40' long--and every time I'm in there I look up and think about how many Tele bodies you could get out of one of them..

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by marqueemoon » Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:17 am

Beautiful. The binding looks really great with that.

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by mackerelmint » Thu Jul 12, 2018 12:35 pm

That's beautiful. I'll echo those comments on the binding. It really accents the wood nicely and looks pure class. Those old Teisco knobs are a fine match, too. I hope I can make a guitar that lovely someday.
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Post by Magnatoner » Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:05 pm

Great work sir!
How does it sound?

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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine

Post by Kent » Thu Jul 12, 2018 8:25 pm

It’s very lovely and the binding choice really works well.

There is something about the pickguard that I find disappointing. I think that it covers too much of that lovely wood, which really should be front-and-center. In contrast to the tasteful choice of binding, which adds to the guitar, the pickguard has the inverse effect for me. Ah, I know what it is: so much plastic that is overrunning so much beautiful and organic wood.

Outside of that, it is stinking lovely!

What shape of headstock did you go for?

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